XBox Live is actually decent to use. The PS Network sucks... waiting in line at a virtual fucking bowling alley? Even if it's free, it's not worth using. It's like saying that a putrid sandwich from last week you found in the gutter is better than the one you bought for lunch today since it was free.
My 16GB SDHC is class 6, which means it'll write at 6MB/s. That's significantly slower than an SSD drive. It is because of the difference between SLC and MLC types of flash, really.
Why in the hell should you need an HTML rendering engine installed to access FTP or network shares? Just because Microsoft calls it "vital" doesn't mean that it should be. I'm sure that Paris Hilton believes that Perrier and caviar are vital to her existence, and would argue the point. That doesn't make her right.
Remove apt from ubuntu and all that happens is that you don't get updates. You can still download and install packages manually (dpkg). You can strip almost everything out of the OS. You cannot do that with Windows.
Qt is actually quite slim. They went through and modularized a lot of in in Qt4 so that you don't have to pull the whole library in every time you needed only parts of it.
Don't forget that MFC is hiding a hell of a lot of the library from you simply because it's installed everywhere. I'd be surprised if it were significantly smaller than Qt, not to mention it completely locks you into Windows. No chance of getting anything written to MFC working on Mac or Linux very easily. It's almost trivial to do so with Qt. Hell, you know that Google Earth uses Qt as it's toolkit, right? Is that a huge download for what it does?
They aren't going to remove the DRM requirements that are buried deep in the OS, so I have no use for them. I don't see any reason why my OS should encrypt data in RAM for me. Ever. It simply gives media companies (and other companies that Microsoft ok's) more control over my machine than I have, and I'm not ok with that.
That's assuming full bandwidth, same as the OTA broadcasts use. Almost all cable and satellite operators recompress the data to use much less bandwidth and squeeze more channels in.
I wasn't even saying that. I was saying that Excel saved the file AS corrupt, and could not re-open it when I tried. Had to repair it from OpenOffice.org as Excel couldn't even repair it itself.
If you use Publisher or Frontpage you should be fired and someone who uses proper tools should be hired instead of you. You can use Scribus instead of Publisher, and there are many, many better alternatives to Frontpage, including Notepad. Hell, Microsoft isn't even making any new versions of Frontpage (their last is 2003). What does that tell you?
As for Access, put the data in a proper database, or just live with it. I know there are a ton of things where applications have been built "organically" on Access, but that's a reason to keep Access around, not MS Office, and only until you can get rid of Access. It's not a good thing, it's not stable, and causes more problems than it solves in pretty much every case I've run into it.
An iPod touch is a completely solid-state device last I heard. You can turn the WiFi off, and it should be mostly silent except for the light. Toss it in a waterproof case, and you have a fairly robust device, it's a device that many troops already have, and it's cheap as hell as compared to many other specialized pieces of equipment. I'd rather our military not spend more money than they have to... they're already pissing lots of money away tilting at windmills set up by the now previous administration.
I think that these new "iPod" thingies have this nifty 1/8" or so hole in them that you can fit "headphones" into that would allow the user to hear sounds created by the device, but not other people.
If you're talking impracticality, talk about the backlight of the LCD giving the sniper away in dark conditions rather than the sounds.
Naah. There are a number of people who make so many other people's lives so miserable that their deaths should be celebrated. For example, Kim Jong Il, Stalin, Hitler, and so on. There are numerous smaller warlords and tribal leaders who also deserve such treatment.
Life is not sacred. If you use yours to deny other people rights, livelihoods or even their own lives simply for existing, you deserve to lose yours.
I don't think "most" means what you think it means. Visio isn't even in ANY standard Office 2007 suite from Microsoft. If someone needs Visio, they can get it. But for 99.9% of employees, OpenOffice.org has all the features they need.
I wouldn't say so. There are a number of people who will complain just because it's different, not because it doesn't do what they want it to do. And if your employees can't deal with a little bit of retraining and thinking for themselves, you're better off without them. They'll blindly take you down a rabbit hole you don't want to go down by following directions to the letter and not paying attention to the bad shit that's going on because of it.
There's no reason to not be sensitive to people's complaints and try to solve them, but saying that someone's complaint is valid simply because they have one is also a mistake. I mean, I could complain that your nick is too long... does that make my complaint valid, and should you then change it to accommodate me?
MS Office doesn't even handle MS Office files. I've had Excel corrupt many spreadsheets itself, things I saved by Excel that the same app couldn't open again on the same computer.
That said, OO.o is quite compatible with MSOffice if you don't get too insane with the formatting and such. I have yet to have someone have a problem opening a.doc with Word that I created in OO.o.
What if Canonical isn't trying to make assloads of money, but are just trying to build a solid business that is profitable?
The sooner we get away from the 80's-style "If you aren't making money hand over fist now, you're worthless" thought, the better. Canonical is making a solid business providing a TON of value for it's customers via a product it's essentially giving away for free that is in many respects equivalent or better than Microsoft's products. Why shouldn't Microsoft be scared of someone who's showing the public and businesses that they don't have to pay through the ass for software? Mindshare is very important, especially in the Internet age.
Making $30M on a product you give away for free is certainly something to be scared of. How much value is Canonical basically giving to its customers if it's only taking $30M for providing many of the same functions that Microsoft does?
Completely OT:
Get some good running shoes, from a running shop that will analyze your gait and fit you with proper shoes. It costs more, but it's the only way to really run without shin splints. It did wonders for me, at least.
Halo is popular because it appealed to fratboys with their new Xboxes. It's nothing groundbreaking, it's more of a "right place, right time, decent execution" thing.
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XBox Live is actually decent to use. The PS Network sucks... waiting in line at a virtual fucking bowling alley? Even if it's free, it's not worth using. It's like saying that a putrid sandwich from last week you found in the gutter is better than the one you bought for lunch today since it was free.
3. They bought a mediocre game franchise "Halo"
There, fixed that for you
My 16GB SDHC is class 6, which means it'll write at 6MB/s. That's significantly slower than an SSD drive. It is because of the difference between SLC and MLC types of flash, really.
What's completely insane to me is that the ratings are VOLUNTARY. They're made by an industry board... and now it's written into law.
But hey, I'm ok with some random industry group effectively having censorship powers over an entire class of media, aren't you?
It's true! I started with ogling the bikini pics, and now I can't get hard short of autoerotic asphyxiation and an hour's worth of gunpoint rape porn.
I probably need a sarcasm tag in there somewhere before the moral police come to take me away...
In relation to your post: http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/01/9-reasons-to-keep-your-kids-away-from.html
Just because it's cracked doesn't mean it's not DRM. I can't play CSS protected DVD's on any Linux distro that it's legal to distribute in the USA.
Why in the hell should you need an HTML rendering engine installed to access FTP or network shares? Just because Microsoft calls it "vital" doesn't mean that it should be. I'm sure that Paris Hilton believes that Perrier and caviar are vital to her existence, and would argue the point. That doesn't make her right.
Remove apt from ubuntu and all that happens is that you don't get updates. You can still download and install packages manually (dpkg). You can strip almost everything out of the OS. You cannot do that with Windows.
Qt is actually quite slim. They went through and modularized a lot of in in Qt4 so that you don't have to pull the whole library in every time you needed only parts of it. Don't forget that MFC is hiding a hell of a lot of the library from you simply because it's installed everywhere. I'd be surprised if it were significantly smaller than Qt, not to mention it completely locks you into Windows. No chance of getting anything written to MFC working on Mac or Linux very easily. It's almost trivial to do so with Qt. Hell, you know that Google Earth uses Qt as it's toolkit, right? Is that a huge download for what it does?
They aren't going to remove the DRM requirements that are buried deep in the OS, so I have no use for them. I don't see any reason why my OS should encrypt data in RAM for me. Ever. It simply gives media companies (and other companies that Microsoft ok's) more control over my machine than I have, and I'm not ok with that.
So you don't own any DVD's? Still on VHS? Or you only download video from The Pirate Bay, and get your music on CD's and mp3's?
That's assuming full bandwidth, same as the OTA broadcasts use. Almost all cable and satellite operators recompress the data to use much less bandwidth and squeeze more channels in.
I wasn't even saying that. I was saying that Excel saved the file AS corrupt, and could not re-open it when I tried. Had to repair it from OpenOffice.org as Excel couldn't even repair it itself.
If you use Publisher or Frontpage you should be fired and someone who uses proper tools should be hired instead of you. You can use Scribus instead of Publisher, and there are many, many better alternatives to Frontpage, including Notepad. Hell, Microsoft isn't even making any new versions of Frontpage (their last is 2003). What does that tell you?
As for Access, put the data in a proper database, or just live with it. I know there are a ton of things where applications have been built "organically" on Access, but that's a reason to keep Access around, not MS Office, and only until you can get rid of Access. It's not a good thing, it's not stable, and causes more problems than it solves in pretty much every case I've run into it.
An iPod touch is a completely solid-state device last I heard. You can turn the WiFi off, and it should be mostly silent except for the light. Toss it in a waterproof case, and you have a fairly robust device, it's a device that many troops already have, and it's cheap as hell as compared to many other specialized pieces of equipment. I'd rather our military not spend more money than they have to... they're already pissing lots of money away tilting at windmills set up by the now previous administration.
I think that these new "iPod" thingies have this nifty 1/8" or so hole in them that you can fit "headphones" into that would allow the user to hear sounds created by the device, but not other people.
If you're talking impracticality, talk about the backlight of the LCD giving the sniper away in dark conditions rather than the sounds.
Naah. There are a number of people who make so many other people's lives so miserable that their deaths should be celebrated. For example, Kim Jong Il, Stalin, Hitler, and so on. There are numerous smaller warlords and tribal leaders who also deserve such treatment.
Life is not sacred. If you use yours to deny other people rights, livelihoods or even their own lives simply for existing, you deserve to lose yours.
I don't think "most" means what you think it means. Visio isn't even in ANY standard Office 2007 suite from Microsoft. If someone needs Visio, they can get it. But for 99.9% of employees, OpenOffice.org has all the features they need.
I wouldn't say so. There are a number of people who will complain just because it's different, not because it doesn't do what they want it to do. And if your employees can't deal with a little bit of retraining and thinking for themselves, you're better off without them. They'll blindly take you down a rabbit hole you don't want to go down by following directions to the letter and not paying attention to the bad shit that's going on because of it.
There's no reason to not be sensitive to people's complaints and try to solve them, but saying that someone's complaint is valid simply because they have one is also a mistake. I mean, I could complain that your nick is too long... does that make my complaint valid, and should you then change it to accommodate me?
MS Office doesn't even handle MS Office files. I've had Excel corrupt many spreadsheets itself, things I saved by Excel that the same app couldn't open again on the same computer.
.doc with Word that I created in OO.o.
That said, OO.o is quite compatible with MSOffice if you don't get too insane with the formatting and such. I have yet to have someone have a problem opening a
What if Canonical isn't trying to make assloads of money, but are just trying to build a solid business that is profitable?
The sooner we get away from the 80's-style "If you aren't making money hand over fist now, you're worthless" thought, the better. Canonical is making a solid business providing a TON of value for it's customers via a product it's essentially giving away for free that is in many respects equivalent or better than Microsoft's products. Why shouldn't Microsoft be scared of someone who's showing the public and businesses that they don't have to pay through the ass for software? Mindshare is very important, especially in the Internet age.
Making $30M on a product you give away for free is certainly something to be scared of. How much value is Canonical basically giving to its customers if it's only taking $30M for providing many of the same functions that Microsoft does?
Yes there is. Microsoft doesn't profit and get Silverlight installed on thousands upon thousands of PC's if they use a standard video format.
Completely OT: Get some good running shoes, from a running shop that will analyze your gait and fit you with proper shoes. It costs more, but it's the only way to really run without shin splints. It did wonders for me, at least.
Halo is popular because it appealed to fratboys with their new Xboxes. It's nothing groundbreaking, it's more of a "right place, right time, decent execution" thing.